Followership Ch.12

courage

. According to Chaleff, followers need to have the ______ to support and to challenge the leader.

exemplary followers

. Lulu has recently been hired to lead the communications division of a regional bank. She calls a meeting of her management team and tells them about her leadership style. She describes how much she really values relationships and co-workers who are highly engaged, who bring a positive attitude, and who are not afraid to offer her new ideas and constructive criticisms. Using Kelley's typology, Lulu is asking her managers to be ______.

having a high need to control and a low level of engagement

A follower typed as compulsive, according to Zaleznik, could be described as ______.

put the organization's goals ahead of the leader's goals

According to Carsten and colleagues, proactive followers ______.

toxic

According to Lipman-Blumen, leaders who have dysfunctional personal characteristics and engage in destructive behaviors are known as ______ leaders.

leadership; followers

Author Susan Cain suggests organizations need to downplay the glorification of ______ skills and that the world needs more ______.

followers challenge leaders

Before Damon became a high school science teacher this year, he operated a large landscaping company. The school board was about to spend several thousand dollars for a new type of grass to be planted in an athletic field. Damon approached the chairperson of the school board and told her about the limitations of the recommended grass type and explained how the investment would be unwise. Damon was embodying which of Carsten and colleagues' perspective on followers?

bystander

Cameron is on a five-person team at work tasked with creating a branding strategy for the company's newest product. He attends the team meetings and knows all about the features of the new product, but when it comes time for the team to make a decision Cameron claims he does not have an opinion. According to Kellerman's typology, Cameron is what type of follower?

it helps us understand the ways people act when they are in followership roles

Categorizing followers into different types is helpful because ______.

he learned about Hitler and the horrors of the World War II holocaust

Chaleff studied the role of followers because he was impacted as a young person when ______.

five

Kellerman's typology identifies ______ levels of follower behaviors.

moral

Like the concept of leadership, followership is presumed to have a/an ______ dimension as it relates to responsibility for the group.

Zaleznik wanted to explain the dynamics of conflicts while Kelley was highlighting followers' importance

One of the key differences between Zaleznik's and Kelley's approach to followership is ______.

leader-member exchange

The followership approach that suggests leadership results from an interaction of leading and following is reminiscent of which major leadership approach?

role-based and relational-based

The two types of perspectives that are used when studying followership are ______.

a starting point for further research and theory building

The typologies in the textbook that describe followers can best be thought of as ______.

it has a longer, richer history than the study of leadership

Which of the following is not accurate about the study of followership?

it elevates the importance and value of followers

One of the key benefits of studying followership is that ______.

leader-follower

There are commonalities among the major followership typologies such that all of the following are general follower "types" except ______.

implementer

. Sarah has a very visible job in her company. She supports her CEO, and wherever she goes she speaks highly of her boss, even when her boss has made bad decisions that have negatively impacted others. In Chaleff's model, Sarah would best be described as what type of follower?

serve a common purpose along with leaders

Chaleff argues that followers ______.

goal-driven

Lipman-Bluman argues that unhealthy followership is caused by subordinates' needs to feel all of the following except ______.

a weakness of followership studies

The leader-centric orientation of our world is considered ______.

Kellerman views followers along a single continuum while other scholars use two dimensions

The main distinction between Kellerman's typology of followers and those of Zaleznik, Chaleff, and Kelley is ______.

kelley

The most recognized followership typology has been offered by ______.

followers get the job done

An awards committee contacted Robin, the head coach of a collegiate sports team, to let her know she had been selected for a top honor due to the winning record her team posted this season. Robin told the committee she was uncomfortable accepting the award and instead asked if her whole team could be awarded the honor instead. Robin deeply understands which of Carsten and colleagues' perspectives on followers?

fear of ostracism and social death

Brandon is a volunteer leader on his church's human relations committee which is charged to oversee staff job performance. Over the past year, Brandon has watched the senior pastor make selfish decisions, spread ill-will about the music leaders, and demand that education groups read only certain books. Brandon is very uncomfortable with the pastor's behaviors, but when it comes time for his committee to submit an annual evaluation of the senior pastor, Brandon gives the pastor a glowing report. Brandon is likely falling prey to which psychological factor that make him susceptible to dysfunctional leadership?

help people in organizations understand the positive aspects of being a follower

Carsten and colleagues offer several practical perspectives on followership intended to ______.

protect the leader under all circumstances

Chaleff advocates that followers ought to do all of the following except ______.

Kelley's exemplary follower

Chaleff's follower style called "partner" is most similar to ______.

is vulnerable to following abusive leaders

Lipman-Bluman argues that a person with a very strong need to have a reassuring authority figure in their life ______.

followers learn from leaders

Marcia must complete a management trainee program at the financial company at which she was just hired. As part of the 18 week program, she shadows Ming who is an experienced project manager. Although Marcia is not directly responsible for the workload, she is inspired by Ming's style. Marcia is experiencing which benefit of being a follower, according to Carsten and colleagues?

isolate

Monique is an immigrant to the United States who became a citizen two years ago. She does not participate in elections or keep track of current events. Kellerman would classify Monique as what type of follower?

activist

President Obama brought on Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff due to his aggressive style and ability to be an agent of change. Emanuel supported Obama and his policies and oftentimes acted on his own accord to shake things up. During this time, Emanuel would best be classified under Kellerman's typology as what kind of follower?

in-groups and out-groups in LMX

The psychological need followers have for membership in the human community is most closely aligned with the notions of ______.

acknowledge the central role followers play in the leadership process

The study of followership is meant to ______.

the study of followership is just as important as the study of leadership

The textbook makes the argument that ______.

environmental context

Which of the following is not one of the four constructs proposed in Uhl-Bein's theory of followership?

knowledge of what inspiring leadership should feel like

Which of the following is not one of the psychological factors that contributes to follower susceptibility to toxic leaders, as outlined by Lipman-Blumen?

following and leading behaviors interact to create leadership which produces outcomes

Which of the following is the best synopsis of the leadership co-created process model?

leader power

Which of the following leader characteristics is a variable in Uhl-Bein's theoretical model of followership?

need for security and certainty

Without much warning, Carla's parents sent Carla to a boarding school 400 miles away. Carla felt completely off balance and unsure in her new environment, knowing none of the other students or the norms of the school. She followed along with the rigorous work schedule, unreasonable rules, and constant criticism from teachers. Caroline was susceptible to this abusive environment due to which psychological factor outlined by Lipman-Bluman?

followers support the leader

You are in a staff meeting when your boss mentions an idea he's been thinking about for a while. You love his idea and feel it would benefit the organization. So you are the first staff member speak up and agree with the boss's strategy. You are demonstrating which of Carsten and colleagues' perspective on followers?

resource

Your co-worker, Michael, does just the minimal amount of work to keep his job. He neither supports nor challenges the boss. Chaleff would describe Michael's followership style as ______.

role-based

Your marketing team decides to include Jared in a current project because he is known for always challenging the leader's ideas. This is an example of using which perspective of followership?

authority

Zaleznik assumed that followers behaved in certain ways based on their responses to inner and sometimes unconscious tensions involving ______.

help followers become leaders themselves

Zaleznik's early typology of followership was designed to ______.

followers fear losing their security and sense of community with the group

Followers will oftentimes become passive and inactive around toxic leaders because ______.

in its early stages

Followership as an area of study is considered ______.

how and why followers respond to leaders

Followership research is about ______.

construct

A recent conceptualization of followership proposed by Uhl-Bein and colleagues suggests that followership is a process that includes how followers and leaders interact to ______ leadership and its outcomes

characteristics, behaviors, and outcomes

A theory of followership discussed in the textbook explicitly includes which of the following elements in the model?

feel chosen or special

Destructive leaders such as Hitler and those who lead White supremacy groups gain followers because they prey on people's psychological need to ______.

typologies

Early research on followership resulted in a series of ______ which form the building blocks for additional theory building.

people who have less power than the leader but are critical in the leadership process

Followers can most accurately be described as ______.

a co-constructed process wherein followers and leaders share equally

From a relational-based perspective, the new followership literature encourages us to view leadership as ______.

high challenge and low support for the leader

In Chaleff's model of followership, an individualist exhibits ______.

dominant-submissive and active-passive

In Zaleznik's typology of followers, follower behaviors can be charted along which two scales?

belonging

In exclusive clubs and ritualistic groups like fraternities and sororities, followers can become vulnerable to bad leadership when they are unable to regulate their own personal need for ______.

. followership is tied to interpersonal behaviors

In the relational-based approach to followership ______.

fear of powerlessness

Jacki works as a corporate engagement specialist at an exclusive art gallery. She reports to Sean, the executive director who is a renowned artist and well-recognized in the community. For years, Sean been sexually harassing the women who work at the gallery. Jacki has suffered the treatment for a long time while promoting the gallery and increasing its funding. One day Sean's behavior goes beyond what Jacki can handle so, despite how uncomfortable she is with the risk, she reports him to the board. Jacki is overcoming which psychological factor that makes people susceptible to dysfunctional leaders?

alienated

Joshua is a member of a local nonprofit organization that works to beautify the community. He often has excuses for not coming to events and when he does come, he keeps to himself and complains to others around him about how he has a better way of doing things. According to Kelley's followership typology, Joshua can best be described as ______.

diehard

Juanita is deeply committed to the conservation of natural resources. She currently works for a national organization whose executive director is recommending to its 50,000 members that they bargain with lawmakers by agreeing to allow development on a very small protected forest area in Vermont in order to save their political resources to fight harder for the protection of a major national park in Colorado. Juanita disagrees with her executive director's strategy and rallies a few of the extreme members to camp out in the Vermont forest for days on end as a show of protest. Juanita is what Kellerman would call a ______ follower.

pragmatic

Rafi is on a website development team. She is the teammate who helps to maintain the status quo but will support an idea once she sees that others are supporting it. According to Kelley's followership typology, Rafi is a follower best described as ______.

studying followership by considering how followers impact leaders and organizations

Reversing the lens means ______.

off its pedestal

Some of the current followership literature challenges us to take leadership ______.

complete

Studying followership helps to ______ our understanding of leadership.

is prescriptive

The approach to followership offered by Chaleff ______.

power

The definitions of leadership and followership in the textbook have elements in common. Which of the following is not a common element in the two definitions?

a strength of followership studies

The fact that recent leadership literature has now focused more explicitly on followership than ever before is considered ______.

participants

These types of followers, according to Kellerman, demonstrate a medium level of engagement in the group's goal and may support or oppose the leader.

Kellerman

This scholar used her experience as a political scientist to inform her thinking about the importance of followers.

are not popular programs currently but are predicted to become more important

Training and development programs in followership are ______.

leadership co-created process

When one individual's following behaviors interact with another individual's leading behaviors to manifest leadership and its resulting outcomes, this approach is known as the ______.

followers can play a harmful role in organizations

Which of the following is most accurate about followers?

little empirical research has been conducted on the topic

. A weakness of the study of followership is ______.

a formal theory of followership

. Uhl-Bein and her colleagues were the first to propose ______.

has not been studied or scrutinized until recently

The impact of followers on organizations ______.

the allure of toxic leaders

What is the name of the 2005 book by Jean Lipman-Blumen that explored the question 'why do people follow bad leaders'?

behavioral approach

When applied to organizational life, knowledge about followership can help leaders by viewing each follower uniquely and adjusting the leadership style accordingly. Put this way, studies of followership are closely aligned with all of the following leadership theories except ______.